Billiard and pool table cushion



June 2 3, 1925.

I F. w. TILLEY BILLIARD m: POOL nan: cusa'tol m vf/vrae Patented June 23, 1925 PAT O FICE;

raEDEnIoKjw. TILL'EY, or HAMILTON, onrartro, cAnAnA.

BrLLrAap' Ann PooL'rAB n CUSHION.

Application filed January 23, 1925. Serial No 4,208.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that FREDERICK W. TILLEY, a-subject of the King of Great Britain,'re siding at Hamilton, in the county of Wentworth and Province of Ontario, Canada, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Billiard and Pool Table Cushions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in billiard and pool tables and principally to the means therein employed of imparting the rebound to the billiard or pool balls as they strike the side members of the table, usually called the cushions.

An important object of the invention is to provide a table of the class specified having rebound members which will not deteriorate nor lose their properties while exposed in the open, as do the rubber cushions when subject to the suns rays, and thus provide a game table capable of being used and kept outside for outdoor recreation.

A second important object is to provide a rebound member of longer durability than the rubber cushion at present in general use, and that will maintain its resiliency and not go dead as is common of rubber cushions.

A third important object of the invention is in the novel features by which metallic members can be used to supplant the ordinary rubber cushions.

These, together with other objects may be attained with the construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

Referring to the drawing;

Figure 1 is a plan View of a corner portion of a pocket billiard or pool table constructed in accordance with this invention;

Figure 2 is a plan view of a corner portion of a pocketless billiard or pool table used in a different class of game constructed in accordance with this invention;

Figure 3 is an elevation of one of the side walls of the table as viewed from within or across the table; and,

Figure 4 is a cross sectional end elevation of the table construction and side wall taken on the line 33 in Figure 8.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

This invention consists specifically of improvements in the rebound structure and is shown in connection with an ordinarily constructed billiard or pool table comprising in part the supporting frame 10, rails 11, top slab 12 and its covering 13. In Figure 1 the pocket type table is illustrated, the pocket iron being indicated'by the numeral 14; and the pocket by the numeral 15. "In

Figure 2 is shown the pocketless type of table, and in this type'of table the rails 11 are mitered as at 16.

Secured to the inner surfaces of the rails 11 andsupporting frame 10 are the side walls 17 Grooved in these side walls, are a plurality of spaced straight leaf springs 19 at a preferred angle of 45. The ends of these leaf springs project an equal distance beyond the side walls 17, their projected ends being adapted to bend from normal upon impact.

A metallic band 20 is horizontally stretched along the free ends of the leaf springs 19 and drawn very taut by binding the ends of it around corner supports 21 and thence around the end edges of the side walls and back parallel with the back of the side wall where it is anchored as by the nails 22 for example. The corner supports 21 are formed of sheet metal bent in the form of a U in plan and secured in special grooves in the side wall preferably at a 45 angle, the curved part projecting outwardly from the side wall forming a rounded corner to support the band 20 in proper relation in accordance with regulation game tables.

The height or distance between the upper surface of the top slab 12, or its covering 13, to the centre of the horizontal bands 20 and leaf springs 19 are equal to the radius of a regulation billiard or pool ball indicated by 23, and the elasticity of the stretched band 20 combined with that of the supporting free ends of the leaf springs 19 are adapted to impart a rebound to a shot ball, and give it the correct angle, as with the use of rubber cushions. Stripe or cover rails 24 are fitted and secured to the tops of the side walls 17 and after the aforesaid elastic members are adjusted in place, form part of said walls.

It is obvious that various types of elastic members may be substituted for the leaf springs 19 shown and described, without departing from the spirit and scope of this invention.

i There has thus been produced a simple and useful article of the class described and for the purpose specified.

Having now fully disclosed the invention, What I claim, is

1. In a billiard and pool table including a supporting frame, side Walls facing the playing area of the table, a plurality of leaf springs fixed in diagonal grooves in the side walls and having free ends extending therefrom, and an elastic band stretched taut along said springs and fastened at its ends.

2. In a billiard and pool table including a supporting frame, side Walls facing the playing area of the table, a plurality of leaf springs arranged in diagonal relation along the side Walls, and an elastic band stretched taut along said springs fastened at its ends.

3. In a billiard and pool table including a supporting frame, side Walls facing the play- 111g area of the table, a plurality of elastic members arranged along the side Walls, elastic corner supports formed of spring band metal bent in U shape, the shanks of the U being confined in grooves of limited length in the side Walls and the curve of the U projecting, and a flexible metallic band or strap stretched taut along said elastic members and around said corner supports and fastened at its ends.

In testimony Whereof I have affixed my signature.

FREDERICK l/V. TILLEY. Witnesses:

V. D. EARLE, H. G. HINDRY. 

